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As the Leaf Flutters

January 18, 2013
By AshleyDrake PLATINUM, Indian Trail, North Carolina
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I love you like this because I do not know any other way to love - Pablo Neruda, Sonnet 17

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As a leaf flutters in the breeze
A lone wolf cries
For its mother
Honey drips from the comb
Of the queen bee
A single ant loses itself from the colony
Accelerating cars
Accelerate on the highway
As the dog accelerates the chase.
All this happens as the
Leaf flutters in the breeze

© Allison S., Eau Claire, WI

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